Category: Sports

Super Bowl 49  lived up to the hype of potentially being one of the best Super Bowls in history. This game had it all: great defense, great offense, and memorable and controversial…

Over break, Morgan Stuut broke the record for all-time scoring for Saint Xavier University’s women’s basketball team. The Xavierite wanted to know about what made this athlete tick. When did you start…

On Jan. 24 the Cougars defeated the Fighting Saints of Saint Francis 87-79. Despite falling behind early in the game, the Saints came back late in the second half to challenge the…

The men’s basketball team was not as fortunate this week as the women’s basketball team. Despite Saturday’s game being a close back-and-forth match, the Fighting Saints would end up victorious over the…

Super Bowl XLIX is a great matchup pitting the Seattle Seahawks against the New England Patriots. This game should be a great defense of battle as Seattle finished the year with the…

In the season opener, the men’s volleyball team played a tightly contested game against Dominican. This game was very close from the very beginning with the Cougars and the Stars trading points…

Former Chicago Cub and trailblazing ball player Ernie Banks died on Friday. Banks was signed to the Cubs in 1953 after playing in the Negro league and was the team’s first African…

On Saturday, January 24, the men and women’s track and field teams competed in the Indiana Wesleyan Invitational in Marion, Indiana. Top finishers in the men’s individual running events included junior Rexford…

Even though the Xavierite may not print over break, that does not mean that our teams stop doing their thing. Here are some of the things that you may have missed while…

Saint Xavier is one of the final four teams in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Football Championship Series. With the Cougars’ 30-17 defeat of No. 6 Lindsey Wilson College on Saturday,…